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Bitcoin rips through $54,000 for the first time since December 2021

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Bitcoin. Nurphoto | Getty Images The price of bitcoin shot above the $54,000 level on Monday after waking up from a week of tepid trading. The flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 5% at $54,384.81, according to Coin Metrics. At its session high, bitcoin hit $54,965.26 and reached its highest level since December 2021. “Today … Read more

Bitcoin wavers, ether soars after SEC greenlights launch of U.S. bitcoin ETFs

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Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images Bitcoin hovered around the flat line higher late Wednesday after the Securities and Exchange Commission gave the green light for the first-ever spot bitcoin ETFs to trade in the U.S., as expected. The cryptocurrency trimmed earlier losses and was last trading flat at $46,671.22, according to Coin Metrics. … Read more